In difficult days and facing dire circumstances, it is always good to remind ourselves that God is greater than all.

Scott Pauley is examining the miracles of Jesus recorded for us in God's Word.

Our hope is that the message in these miracles

will become real in your life. Christ is enough. Let's open our Bibles and join the study now.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable.

We believe that every word in the scripture and the very words were given by inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

What we mean by that is God doesn't use fillers.

Nothing in the Bible is there by accident. Nothing is incidental or coincidental. No. In God's good providence, he chose what

he wanted recorded on the pages of Holy Scripture. So when you come to a text, like the one we

approached today in our study of the miracles of Jesus,

you just marvel because what seems so incidental,

and you think, well, I wonder why this is even in the Bible.

The Holy Spirit begins to illuminate and help us to understand.

There's truth here for us.

We come today to Matthew chapter number 17.

It's interesting that this particular story deals with money, with taxes, and who is writing this particular gospel record, the converted tax collector, Matthew, a man who not only would

have understood it, but would have had a very special context in his thinking

and in his background and an experience. Here's the story. In Matthew 17, verse 24, and when they

were come to Copernium, they that received tribute money came to Peter and said,

Deth not your master pay tribute? He saith, yes.

And when he was coming to the house, Jesus prevented him, saying,

by the way, that word prevented is very interesting.

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